"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well"
Virginia Woolf
Les Entrées
Vert concombre $18

Chilled cucumber soup with fresh Blue Swimmer crab salad rolls,

ruby grapefruit caviar & coriander sorbet

 
Persillade en veux tu, en voilà                     $18

Millefeuille of garlic buttered snails with parsley émulsion & roasted fresh garlic bulb served on sweet beurre noisette

La caille gasconne $22

De-boned roasted quail filled with French "Perigord" fois gras (mi-cuit),

served with hibiscus flowers, pink rhubarb & green bean salad, preserved lemon coulis

L'artichaud en cuillière $16

Warm pickled globe artichokes with goat's cheese cream, fresh rocket

tomato jelly & toasted pinenuts

Huîtres au naturel $3.10 each
Market best oysters served with champagne vinegar
Warmed oyster specials $3.30 each
Extras
Fougasse ~ $6
Home baked crispy bread filled with tomato, black olives & goat's cheese
Sourdough baguette $2
Nettle, pickled onions, lardons & crouton salad in mustard dressing $6
Steamed green beans in olive oil & eschallots $7
Pommes frites $6
Creamy mash potatoes with truffle oil $6

Les Plats
Un goût d'asperge $34

Tender eye fillet with hot asparagus aspic, served on celeriac purée,

with fresh bone marrow, pommes sablés & red wine jus

La daurade ensoleille $30

Basil steamed snapper fillet on wilted spinach, zucchini ribbons, confit cherry tomatoes, black olive petals, with sauteed prawns & tumeric sunlight

 
Triptic de lapin $32

De-boned rabbit saddle wrapped in proscuitto serrano, confit of legs in a lettuce ball,

with broad bean & eschallot fricassé, smooth carrot purée & rabbit liver pâté

Un nid de legumes

$28

Fresh beetroot risotto with a spring vegetable nest, fresh flower & mixed herb salad,

with a "1000 year-old style" egg & reduced Balsamic

 
Our specials change daily, depending on the market & season's offerings
Les Desserts

Au nom de la rose

Fresh vanilla bean ice-cream in a crispy tuile, rosewater cream, petals & red berry salad

$14

Passion et chocolat

Lindt chocolate parfait with passionfruit & fresh coconut brunoise, passionfruit sorbet

$14
Crème brulée da la semaine $14
Spéciale du jour $14
Trio of homemade sorbets & ice-creams $12
Fromages à trois ~ fine French & Australian cheeses with fresh baguette & lavoche $25
   
Espresso coffees and teas & petits fours $3.70
Bistro Lunch
                                        Main course & cafe ~ $20

   Main course, dessert & cafe ~ $27

 
Eye fillet steak with Béarnaise sauce, pommes frites & watercress salad
Warm pickled globe artichokes with goat's cream cheese, rocket, pinenuts & tomato jelly  
Pan-roasted Fish of the Day  
Mixed salad of mozzerella, tomatoes, rocket & proscuitto with pesto dressing
Traditional Salade Niçoise